Comments on: The Speaker http://wightweirdos.co.uk/ww/2009/05/the-speaker/ The Gibson Family Blog, also incorporating Maybe it Mutters Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:36:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Iain Gibson http://wightweirdos.co.uk/ww/2009/05/the-speaker/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Iain Gibson Sat, 09 May 2009 22:07:00 +0000 http://wightweirdos.co.uk/ww/2009/05/the-speaker/#comment-84 The repetition in programmes is caused by the desire of programme makers to allow people who didn't watch from the start to figure out what's going on so they don't get confused and change channel. The telling you what's coming next is so that you're excited by what's still to come and don't change channel.<br /><br />It's the programme-making dog being wagged by the marketing tail.<br /><br />And I think I have to put something about these being my personal views and not the views of my employer - although I'm probably so far off message that the apparachniks will be banging down my door any second now. The repetition in programmes is caused by the desire of programme makers to allow people who didn’t watch from the start to figure out what’s going on so they don’t get confused and change channel. The telling you what’s coming next is so that you’re excited by what’s still to come and don’t change channel.

It’s the programme-making dog being wagged by the marketing tail.

And I think I have to put something about these being my personal views and not the views of my employer – although I’m probably so far off message that the apparachniks will be banging down my door any second now.

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